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Jhoan vs Jhonny

American parents have registered 1,855 Jhonnys since 1880, against 657 Jhoans. But in 2025 it was Jhoan that was commoner, 51 babies to 25.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jhoan against Jhonny, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jhoan Jhonny

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 85 years in which either name was published, Jhonny for 81 years and Jhoan for 4 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Jhoan Jhonny
Total US births 6571,855
Most in one year 7669
Babies in 2025 5125
Estimated living today 6501,700
Median age today 819
Peak year 20232006
Best rank 1,999th boys1,943rd boys
Rank in 2025 2,572nd4,139th
First recorded 19961925
Girls / boys 0 / 6570 / 1,855

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Jhonnys alive today are over 19; half the Jhoans are over 8. That is 11 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Jhoan Jhonny
France 15470

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Jhoan and Jhonny.